Why Everyone Wants Jon Ossoff to Run for President

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Why Everyone Wants Jon Ossoff to Run for President

June 14, 2026 at 4:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 307 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/06/14/why-everyone-wants-jon-ossoff-to-run-for-president/

Michelle Goldberg: “If you were cooking up an ideal 2028 candidate in a lab, he — and let’s face it, it’s probably a he — would look a lot like Ossoff. He’s young and handsome, with a picture-perfect family: a beautiful wife who works as an obstetrician-gynecologist and two small daughters. He’s a Southerner from a reddish state with a history of wooing Black voters. And he’s a Jewish critic of Israel who, as much as anyone in politics today, has the potential to bridge the Democratic Party’s agonizing divide over Zionism.”

“But the excitement Ossoff is generating is about more than demographics. It stems from his skill in eviscerating Trump’s gluttonous profiteering, his brazen attempts to turn this country into the most squalid sort of kleptocracy.”